Furrier Ždiar

Furrier Ždiar

Furrier Ždiar

Producer
Šufliarsky Mikuláš
Year added to portfolio
1994
Material
textile
Craft
furrier, leather craft
Colour
colour combination
About product

Sheepskin vest – three-piece cut, made of brown sheepskin with sheared wool on the inner side. Brown colored leather adorned with red irchy and embroidery from colored wool yarn on the front and back pieces along the seam and on the shoulders. The back piece is decorated from the shoulder irchy application with a central tulip-shaped neckline and small leaf cutouts and symmetrically placed mold and purple flower embroideries in the form of a peacock eye and buttonhole embroidery, dots and small flowers in the center, similar decoration but with red and white petals is at the bottom edge of the vest. In the center of the back part, there is a symmetrical embroidery of a combination of stylized geometric and realistic vegetative motif of so-called god’s bread with white floret and green mold leaves and purple flowers. The armholes are trimmed with a narrow strip of red irchy, the rest with black lamb fur. The vest is fastened with four pairs of symmetrically placed woolen tassels made of red and yellow wool yarn.

Author
Šufliarsky Mikuláš
Author
Šufliarsky Mikuláš
He came from Detva, where as an eleven-year-old he learned to sew fur coats from the domestic master P. Kamenský. He was active from 1924. He devoted his whole life to this craft. He mastered the demanding process of leather processing and dyeing, he...
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